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join me next time for a conversation with album and aout his memoir that includes michael jackson. we will see you then. >> there is a saying that dr. king had. he said, there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only about halfway to completely eliminate hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. yourd by contributions to pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. >>> hello. welcome to this is us. i'm beck can king reed. this week we're at st. joseph's cathedral. we're going to do exploring and hear stories. we'll also meet a former speech writer for president a sen how -- isenhower and we'll have a love story for you. we've got a lot of stories to share and it all starts now.
join me next time for a conversation with album and aout his memoir that includes michael jackson. we will see you then. >> there is a saying that dr. king had. he said, there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only about halfway to completely eliminate hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. yourd...
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. >> michael jackson pulled that off. olds,w i think, 17-year- they don't know nothing. that is how i feel. , and imore comfortable feel people will take it seriously coming from me at this age versus when you are younger. how do you process looking out in the audience most anhts and seeing ,verwhelmingly white audience which suggests a number of things to me. i think about the young rodda g. -- the young prodigy. he is going to be a great layer. he is a good layer now. should -- wonderful player now. you should google this guy. a young man named quinn sullivan. kid buddy thisg covered. buddy take this kid around, and he's a white kid. i have had so many conversations. i said, where are all the black boys? >> they are out there. there are tones of younger black kids. >> your audience isn't made overwhelmingly of us. >> that's true. it depends where you go. if you go to dca there is going to be more black people. see anybodyl to come out for this music. that's what i am doing with my music. trying to have commentary that makes people of all kinds want to come out. we will
. >> michael jackson pulled that off. olds,w i think, 17-year- they don't know nothing. that is how i feel. , and imore comfortable feel people will take it seriously coming from me at this age versus when you are younger. how do you process looking out in the audience most anhts and seeing ,verwhelmingly white audience which suggests a number of things to me. i think about the young rodda g. -- the young prodigy. he is going to be a great layer. he is a good layer now. should --...
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i suspect michael jackson is the most famous african-american artist subjected to these conversations about whether he was bleaching his skin for whatever purposes. michael jackson had to navigate this many years and had his own response about skin disease, look like the fame india i have always known. -- the same india i have always known. it was painful for me to have to watch you endure that. >> i want to thank you. it is nice to know you care about me like that. you do not want people to turn on you. i get it. i was surprised at the attention. i was surprised i had negative it turned. it made me think about it. i was skipping over a lot of steps about color resentment -- but what itm, came down to, i decided not to defend myself, because i knew my reputation speaks for itself, and it has all died down now. the other part was about worthiness. can you see that? zoom in on that necklace. tell me about this. >> for the caucasians, there is colorism, and you were treated as worth more or worth less based on how light or dark you but there are still challenges whoever you are. being ga
i suspect michael jackson is the most famous african-american artist subjected to these conversations about whether he was bleaching his skin for whatever purposes. michael jackson had to navigate this many years and had his own response about skin disease, look like the fame india i have always known. -- the same india i have always known. it was painful for me to have to watch you endure that. >> i want to thank you. it is nice to know you care about me like that. you do not want people...
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and i went to camp shelby, right outside of -- not far from jackson, mississippi. and i already knew how to drive a tractor pretty good. so they would give me a job driving a tractor. nothing special because i had been doing that all the time. and i kind of liked that. but they reclassified us. i said us because there were several of us, about 80 of us, that when in at the same time. scared us to death on the bus. we were on a greyhound bus going to camp shelby. and two or three of the guys were not from mississippi. they were picking with the white girls on the side of the road while picking cotton. if i had to ride the bus for pay, i still had to sit in the back. but i got through it pretty good. i had a lot of older friends around me that had taught me about white people. tavis: so when you got in the army, you knew how to behave. you got in and you got out. >> no problem. tavis: i suspect we will talk more about this tomorrow night. let me put this question out now. there is a movie that i love called "cadillac records." it talks about all the artists and how t
and i went to camp shelby, right outside of -- not far from jackson, mississippi. and i already knew how to drive a tractor pretty good. so they would give me a job driving a tractor. nothing special because i had been doing that all the time. and i kind of liked that. but they reclassified us. i said us because there were several of us, about 80 of us, that when in at the same time. scared us to death on the bus. we were on a greyhound bus going to camp shelby. and two or three of the guys...
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[laughter] tavis: there is a guy named michael jackson who he got most of that from. >> he is such a great person. i would love to work with him again. tavis: so you have a son who is obviously managing this every day. why choose to put this out as a screenplay, as opposed to not putting it out? everybody who has somebody close to them who is struggling with something like this, that is a personal decision. it is a personal battle, private affair. obviously i am glad you did, and the nominations and award speak to the fact that people appreciate it, but you could have left that as a private affair. >> as a writer and director, you have to trust that the best work sometimes comes from your own heart. it was such a big part of my life and my son's life and his mother's life, too. you go through quite an injured trying to hold together the family, trying to help somebody. my son is older now, but when they turn to you at the age of 9 or t in and they are not feeling too good about life. there is nothing worse for a parent when that happens. you would do anything for that child, to help
[laughter] tavis: there is a guy named michael jackson who he got most of that from. >> he is such a great person. i would love to work with him again. tavis: so you have a son who is obviously managing this every day. why choose to put this out as a screenplay, as opposed to not putting it out? everybody who has somebody close to them who is struggling with something like this, that is a personal decision. it is a personal battle, private affair. obviously i am glad you did, and the...
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interview him jackson left the room for a while and he went and found a bunch of lyrics that jackson had written and he printed them. and i was so shocked. you never read anybody else's mail or diaries. anything downting because cameron crowe might find it at my house. i never wrote anything down. i wrote one letter home about the doors that i used as reference for the book. but that was it. i was sitting next to this guy who wrote the botany of desire. are you going to write a book? i said, i can't write. i know the difference between good he said, everybody has one story they can tell in an authentic way. thought, so many people have written about me and said stuff about me. inaccurate, iwas said i think i want my side of the story. i wrote a book about renÉe fleming and how her musical journey developed as a singer. tot will be a cool thing, tell my story because i am not the most important pop singer that ever was but i am the most diverse pop singer from that era. it would be good to show how those musical choices were not arbitrary and very deliberate. and what the foundation
interview him jackson left the room for a while and he went and found a bunch of lyrics that jackson had written and he printed them. and i was so shocked. you never read anybody else's mail or diaries. anything downting because cameron crowe might find it at my house. i never wrote anything down. i wrote one letter home about the doors that i used as reference for the book. but that was it. i was sitting next to this guy who wrote the botany of desire. are you going to write a book? i said, i...
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the blind boys of mississippi was from a little school in mississippi out of jackson called piney wood. tavis: i have been there many times. >> the blind boys of alabama came from alabama. the blind boys of mississippi, ther actual name was jackson pioneers predict the blind boys of alabama's actual name was happy and jubilee. the blind boys of alabama and mississippi got their names, that is another story. [laughter] tavis: can i just tell you, with all due respect, whoever came up with the happy land jubilee singers -- you know where i'm going, don't you? the five blind boys of alabama i think is lot better than the happy land jubilee singers. i'm happy you all made that switch. as difficult as it was -- this was back in 1944, right? >> yeah. ll the we all know too we hell that black people were enduring in alabama and mississippi in that area -- in that era. if it was bad for black folk across the board, how much more would difficult was it to make your way in the world as a blind black boy? >> you know, we had a sense back then. it was kind of hard to sing all night and couldn't fi
the blind boys of mississippi was from a little school in mississippi out of jackson called piney wood. tavis: i have been there many times. >> the blind boys of alabama came from alabama. the blind boys of mississippi, ther actual name was jackson pioneers predict the blind boys of alabama's actual name was happy and jubilee. the blind boys of alabama and mississippi got their names, that is another story. [laughter] tavis: can i just tell you, with all due respect, whoever came up with...
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why did phil jackson matter? >> i think that it's a collision of things that are happening, and people come together at certain moments that are just unique. for whatever reason, i was able -- i had interview opportunities before that were -- minnesota's an expansion team and another team that was not going anywhere, and i wasn't taken as a coach. i wasn't dogmatic or charismatic enough to be that coach. but the right thing happened at the right time for me, and maybe for these players. it certainly worked that way, and it was a success. so i have to feel like there's a guidance, that something made sense out there, and i was fortunate, and yet, i was ready to be in the right place and the right time, and all these things worked together for the good. tavis: yeah. >> you know that scripture. tavis: i know it well. >> work together for the good, for those who love the lord and called according to his purpose. >> that is right. tavis: the book is called "eleven rings: the soul of success," written by the guy who ha
why did phil jackson matter? >> i think that it's a collision of things that are happening, and people come together at certain moments that are just unique. for whatever reason, i was able -- i had interview opportunities before that were -- minnesota's an expansion team and another team that was not going anywhere, and i wasn't taken as a coach. i wasn't dogmatic or charismatic enough to be that coach. but the right thing happened at the right time for me, and maybe for these players....
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i was in the audience when michael jackson came out and first did the moonwalk. beatleswent to the concerts to scream. i never screamed that anybody's show. i was on my feet, and we were shrieking our guts out. we would have gone anywhere with him. it was a moment we connected. that's why he was the greatest pop star of any time. troubled guy, but whatever that was it was really powerful. i would have followed him to help. is that your sense that he was the greatest pop star of all time? >> i think so. he was one of the greatest singers ever, but when he got up there the way he could dance, he was just brilliant. tavis: you have been blessed to work with some of the great songwriters. talk to me about we recall content. how important has it been to you over this artistic journey? >> i think of the united states culture, it iso the popular song, and the zenith period that started in the 1920's and went into the 1950's, and it was the great american standard song. the reason was migration. there were lots of labors of migration. there was forced migration from afri
i was in the audience when michael jackson came out and first did the moonwalk. beatleswent to the concerts to scream. i never screamed that anybody's show. i was on my feet, and we were shrieking our guts out. we would have gone anywhere with him. it was a moment we connected. that's why he was the greatest pop star of any time. troubled guy, but whatever that was it was really powerful. i would have followed him to help. is that your sense that he was the greatest pop star of all time?...
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the point was made that if you have the support that jesse jackson had in black america, in what do'91988, you make of the point that if support thise's would be over? >> black folks have fun this for the clintons. black women in particular. if right now nationally the numbers showed as getting that kind of 80-90% of african- american support, it would be over with. that gap between me and hillary would be closed. what is going on in the african- american community is the same thing i saw in the u.s. senate race. i was getting 25% of the black vote. black folks did not know me. they're looking at barack obama, we do not know -- where is he from and what is he about? we went javon tv and by the end we had 85%. my support in illinois is 90% among african-americans. the same thing you are seeing in the states where i am active. in south carolina i started out at 10%. now we lead among african- americans and that is before we have run any television. the interesting thing among black voters is what we hear again and again, folks are somewhat concerned about my safety and i have to remind them
the point was made that if you have the support that jesse jackson had in black america, in what do'91988, you make of the point that if support thise's would be over? >> black folks have fun this for the clintons. black women in particular. if right now nationally the numbers showed as getting that kind of 80-90% of african- american support, it would be over with. that gap between me and hillary would be closed. what is going on in the african- american community is the same thing i saw...
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he has collaborated with everyone from frank sinatra to michael jackson. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: paul anka had his first hit when he was just 15. hit after hit followed as he reinvented himself to remain relevant. he has now written a memoir. has a new cd coming out in which he shares the microphone with the likes of willie nelson, frank sinatra and michael jackson. the clip you are about to see is from a few years ago. >> ♪ then he has not to say the thing he truly feels ♪ ♪ did it my way [applause] it is hard to think of a song with a lyric better than that. i was listening to aretha franklin and her cover of this. she sold it up. her version is amazing. you suggeste
he has collaborated with everyone from frank sinatra to michael jackson. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers...
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bassett plays the motel jackson playsl l. martin luther king. i wa>> he is such a big name. broadway is a strange place right now. a showe in order to get on board you have to have a big movie star in your play. there are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity because the are not a named. -- they are not a named. . tavis: we love that british accent. what iseeing now happening to mandela. we will see later this year what happens to king. which brings us to the third person in this trilogy. dr. kingrlier i regard as the greatest leader this country has produced. paul robeson was a bad man. he just does not -- he is not as robeson is accompanied it person. he stood in his truth. from that perspective he is not a very controversial figure. standing in his truth led to all kinds of controversies. actors of greatest our time happen to be harry tier.onte and sidney poirie with harryit belafonte and not have him wax --tic about paul roberson paul robeson. there is a whole bunch of folks who he impacted in a major way. let me flip it on you and say
bassett plays the motel jackson playsl l. martin luther king. i wa>> he is such a big name. broadway is a strange place right now. a showe in order to get on board you have to have a big movie star in your play. there are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity because the are not a named. -- they are not a named. . tavis: we love that british accent. what iseeing now happening to mandela. we will see later this year what happens to king. which brings us...
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i suspect that michael jackson is the most famous african american artist who was subjected to these conversations about whether or not he was bleaching his skin, lightening his skin, for whatever purposes. so michael jackson had to navigate this for many, many years and had his own response to it about his skin disease, et cetera. but i'm looking at you now and you look to me like the same india i've always known. but it was painful for me to have to watch you endure that, and i wasn't even seeing you every day. but just knowing you heart to heart, that troubled me. how did you navigate, how have you navigated, this nonsense over the last couple months of whether or not you were bleaching your skin? >> bleaching my skin? first i want to thank you, because it's nice to know you care about me like that, so thank you. it was weird, too -- you didn't ask me this, but it was also weird that, with the whole social media, i didn't really get any support from my peers. nobody said anything. i was like -- but i get it, because you don't want people to turn on you. i get it. but i was surpris
i suspect that michael jackson is the most famous african american artist who was subjected to these conversations about whether or not he was bleaching his skin, lightening his skin, for whatever purposes. so michael jackson had to navigate this for many, many years and had his own response to it about his skin disease, et cetera. but i'm looking at you now and you look to me like the same india i've always known. but it was painful for me to have to watch you endure that, and i wasn't even...
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running williamstown and alex was up at williamstown, developing what would become "bloody bloody andrew jackson." and roger and alex were working with the novel. and they did a workshop up in massachusetts which the powers that be came to see and thought enough of to want to take it to another workshop, and for that workshop, they needed some text, because the directors had determined that the actors would be adults and that the story would have an adult sensibility, and the novel is written specifically with a young reader in mind. so, as a friend of the family, they said, "would you write some stuff for the actors to say?" and i did, and to that workshop, dave barry and ridley pearson were in attendance. when they heard it, dave barry said, "who wrote that? that's not in the book." and i sort of, you know, edged to the door. and then he said, "it's funny." so then i edged back into the room. and tom schumacher from disney theatrical said, "did you like it?" and dave and ridley said, "yeah," and he said, "well, rick is going to write the play." and somehow, that's how i got the gig. >> what i
running williamstown and alex was up at williamstown, developing what would become "bloody bloody andrew jackson." and roger and alex were working with the novel. and they did a workshop up in massachusetts which the powers that be came to see and thought enough of to want to take it to another workshop, and for that workshop, they needed some text, because the directors had determined that the actors would be adults and that the story would have an adult sensibility, and the novel is...
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jesse jackson when he secured the nomination in 2008, and he gave a speech where he simultaneously said he was good to escalate the war in afghanistan, and he was also " quoting dr. king. is there not a contradiction in that? to say we should not talk about dr. martin luther king in the same speech as war, but do you not see the irony of that? tavis: is not just by renÉe, jeremy. it is hypocrisy. -- it is not just irony. and they should all listen to the speech of dr. martin luther king. it took him years to come to that position, and i think that one of the things that is happening in our society is that there is so much racism and bigotry towards the president coming from the right. i think a lot of liberals feel they are in a triage mode. do we say something about this or hold them accountable? eric holder it is speech about killing american citizens without due process, and that they will ultimately benefit the political opponents of the president, because they are going to you that and say you're a guy was the man expanding all of this. your nobel peace prize-winning president is
jesse jackson when he secured the nomination in 2008, and he gave a speech where he simultaneously said he was good to escalate the war in afghanistan, and he was also " quoting dr. king. is there not a contradiction in that? to say we should not talk about dr. martin luther king in the same speech as war, but do you not see the irony of that? tavis: is not just by renÉe, jeremy. it is hypocrisy. -- it is not just irony. and they should all listen to the speech of dr. martin luther king....
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lisa jackson. it was annika binder -- an incubator of talents. if it wasn't for us, we knew people would give up on it. moses generation that has done so much to make sure that we have this wonderful neighborhood, what sweet auburn is to atlanta, that is what potter train park was in new orleans. this generation work so hard to give us the opportunity to grow up with a great foundation. it is on us, the joshua generation, to bring it back. we reconstituted ourselves, put together our own corporation. we have a couple of dozen homes with solar and geothermal. we brought the neighborhood back. tavis: i want to ask you what a blessing it has been or how therapeutic -- you will fill in the blank -- to express your artistry in a series like "treÉe " that is based in your hometown. before i do that, every time i hear the story of joseph bartholomew when designing courses on which he could not play, as was the case in new orleans, i think of paul williams out in l.a. if you go to a paul williams home these days, you are all that. i was going to tell th
lisa jackson. it was annika binder -- an incubator of talents. if it wasn't for us, we knew people would give up on it. moses generation that has done so much to make sure that we have this wonderful neighborhood, what sweet auburn is to atlanta, that is what potter train park was in new orleans. this generation work so hard to give us the opportunity to grow up with a great foundation. it is on us, the joshua generation, to bring it back. we reconstituted ourselves, put together our own...